In a letter sent by Kylian Mbappé to The Players Tribune, the French crack and world champion in 2018, remembered his moments when he trained with the Real Madrid and, in addition, the kindness of his idol, Zinedine Zidane.
“Just before I turned 14, I had an amazing surprise. My father received a call from someone in the Real Madrid inviting me to come to Spain for a training session during the holidays. It was a surprise, because they had actually told my father: “A Zidane He would like to see your son. ” At that time, Zizou was the sports director of the club. Of course, it was like being on the moon. I was desperate to go, ”he says Mbappé In that letter.
Mbappé continues telling that “it was not so simple. The scouts were beginning to come to our parties and I was receiving some attention from the media. When you’re 13, you don’t know how to handle this. There was a lot of pressure and my family wanted to protect me from all that. It was my fourteenth birthday that week and what I didn’t know is that my parents were organizing everything with my team at the time to take me to Madrid as a gift. We didn’t tell anyone where we were going. I didn’t even tell my closest friends, because I was too nervous. If things were not going well, I didn’t want to go back to my neighborhood and let them down. ”
The most important moment, according to account Mbappé, is when he came across Zidane, already in Valdebebas. “I will never forget the moment we arrived at the training center from the airport. Zidane He met us at the parking lot next to his car, and it was a really nice car, of course. ”
“We greeted each other and then he offered to take me to the field to train. He was pointing to the front seat as if to say, “Go on, come in.” But I froze and asked: “Do I take my shoes off?” Hahaha! I don’t know why I said that. It was Zizou’s car! He saw it fun. And he said: “Of course not, come on, come in.” He took me to the training camp, and I was thinking to myself, I’m in Zizou’s car. I’m Kylian from Bondy. This is not real. I must still be sleeping on the plane. Sometimes, even when you are really living something, you feel like in a dream … ”, he remembered with nostalgia and laughter Kylian Mbappé.
Zidane and Mbappé during the last Real Madrid – PSG.
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